Supper clubs face challenges, but some live on
June 9, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald
Before “neighborhood” restaurants had corporate headquarters, before there were 24-hour cable networks devoted only to food and before anyone ever dreamed of photographing a meal to post on the Internet, going out on a Friday night involved a certain ritual. Continue Reading
Behind the scenes, when a business falls by the wayside, it leaves unemployed people in its wake. So Roxanne “Roxy” Ganyo Worden is one of a couple dozen employees who have been treading water since the Bronze Boot closed down in May. She had been a waitress there for 33 years. That takes us back to 1979 when “the Boot” was in its heyday.
(WDAZ-TV) – A Grand Forks restaurant open since 1954 is closed and for sale after health inspectors ordered immediate repairs.
Open since 1954, the Bronze Boot Steakhouse and Lounge in Grand Forks will not reopen anytime soon: It is for sale.
As the world now knows, Herald columnist Marilyn Hagerty sometimes writes in “North Dakota Nice” code. If she devotes most of her column to a restaurant’s napkins, decor, parking and other nonessentials, that might be because she’s too polite to write about the food. But no one has needed codebooks to understand Marilyn’s columns about the Bronze Boot.
An evening meal at “the Boot” is always on occasion. It comes as close to the old supper club ambience as you find. 
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